A $100 million underground electric train for Silicon Valley is on its way, and Congress is on board to fix it. Plus, a $1.9 trillion bill from the Biden administration that could change the way we pay our mortgages forever.
00:02:28.960For the last year or so, I've been telling you, if you're a homeowner, you need to consider a refinance of your mortgage as soon as possible.
00:02:34.600Because the historically low mortgage rates that we're experiencing won't last forever.
00:02:57.920Just give them a little bit of your time to find out what they can do to help you get in the best possible financial footing.
00:03:04.880You're prepared, then, no matter what comes down the pike.
00:03:08.080Maybe that means refinancing your mortgage, getting a little lower interest rate.
00:03:11.820Maybe it means bundling your debt together into one manageable monthly payment that could end up saving you hundreds, if not $1,000 or more, every month.
00:04:18.300We get the 591-page bill the Democrats are proposing to act into law.
00:04:23.380Buried in the text of the legislation is a section from the House Transportation Committee to fund $30 billion for transit systems to prepare, to prevent, and to respond to coronavirus.
00:04:36.300Wait, to prepare, to prevent, and respond to coronavirus, $30 billion for new transit systems.
00:05:03.260The bill funds a billion dollars for projects under Section 305B of public law, the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act.
00:05:11.360That section created a pilot program to fast-track federal funds on projects, meaning certain specifications that has been using in applications for funding for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system for Silicon Valley.
00:05:24.140Looks like the bill and other related documents, the new relief bill, will provide BART with about $112 million in funding for the continuation of the 6.5-mile extension from its current terminus in Militas, whatever that is, down to San Jose, then back to the city of Santa Clara.
00:05:52.260So they're going to, for $112 million, Silicon Valley is going to get another 6.5 miles out of it, which, you know, in California, you couldn't bike ride.
00:06:54.720I was thinking, if we're going to slow the curve in 15 days, we need a $15 minimum wage.
00:07:00.720And thank goodness Nancy Pelosi is there.
00:07:05.820The bill also includes $1,400 stimulus checks for individuals earning less than $75,000 a year, married couples earning less than $150,000 a year.
00:07:16.560The amount decreases for individuals and couples earning over those amounts.
00:07:22.520So we have that, including $350 billion in federal funding for states and localities, as well as $400 in weekly federal unemployment benefits on top of state benefits.
00:07:36.840So I think that's, you know, I think that's, that's wonderful.
00:07:40.740That means we're going to be bailing out the states of California, New York, Illinois, which I think is wonderful.
00:08:11.540I know as a small business man myself, I know that the thing you need when you're really struggling is the government to come in and say, you need to increase wages.
00:08:27.180You know, when you're like barely making it and can't bear, you just barely can keep the doors open.
00:08:33.080And when the government comes in and says, yeah, I need you to add at least $5 an hour to all of the employees that are working for minimum wage.
00:08:40.620You say, thank God the government is really here to help.
00:08:45.560Now, now, sometimes progressive congressmen or any congressman, for that matter, will say things that everybody knows they're thinking, but they don't really usually come out and say it.
00:09:07.620And here's what he said on the $15 minimum wage.
00:09:11.740Well, of course, large businesses like Amazon and McDonald's, for example, can can and perhaps should pay more.
00:09:19.060But I'm wondering, what is your plan for smaller businesses?
00:09:23.040How does this, in your view, affect mom and pop businesses who are just struggling to keep their doors open, keep workers on the payroll right now?
00:09:30.740Well, they shouldn't be doing it by paying people low wages.
00:10:07.560Like, you are going to see kiosk after kiosk in most small businesses or places like McDonald's.
00:10:14.520They can afford it because they can afford to buy the kiosk, which will eventually pay for itself and doesn't require, you know, health insurance or anything else.
00:10:26.240So McDonald's can, yes, they can afford the $15 minimum wage just to fix the kiosk.
00:10:34.540And what's interesting about that is they just did a study on this, on McDonald's specifically, this exact corporation they're talking about.
00:10:40.860And the way they, quote unquote, afford it is to pass on 100% of the increases in the wages to the consumers.
00:10:53.980So the people who are going to McDonald's, which generally speaking are fat guys like me and Glenn and people who maybe have a cost concern.
00:11:13.640So your kid won't be able to have a job at Subway or, you know, McDonald's or anything else because those jobs will be eliminated or those jobs will go to adults, you know, that don't go.
00:11:44.400And this has rippling effects throughout our society.
00:11:46.600I also love the point where he's like, look, you know, I just think successful small businesses can afford to pay their people minimum wage or a living wage.
00:13:36.320Probably the piece of technology you use the most throughout the day is your cell phone, whether it's calling or texting or posting your latest kitchen creations to social media throughout the day.
00:13:46.920You're using that phone for all kinds of things, which means, of course, that you're shelling out money and you're putting it into the pockets or of somebody.
00:13:56.240And they're supposed to give you a service back, right?
00:14:01.100But who is that somebody that you're putting money in the pockets of?
00:14:04.920If it's one of the big mobile companies like Verizon, you're giving money not only to Verizon, but Verizon has taken some of your money and giving it to leftist causes that you would never contribute in everyday life.
00:14:17.380You're funding probably Black Lives Matter.
00:14:19.620I know you're funding, you know, pro-abortion activities and Planned Parenthood.
00:14:27.860Or do you want to stand with the people who are giving you a great service at a better price and not doing that?
00:14:36.080In fact, shoring up things, taking a portion of their profits and putting it towards things like the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the right to life, you know, those kinds of things.
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00:14:59.500We have to come together and stand together.
00:15:21.800Governor Gavin Newsom has plans to vaccinate school staff more quickly, you know, more quickly than, well, right now they have in the warehouses about 4 million vaccinations just in California, not being touched right now.
00:15:40.760Because, you know, you got to make an appointment, you know, you have to be a special person.
00:15:47.340It's not like you could just open up the floodgates and say everybody can get a vaccination now because we're making 3 million vaccinations every single day.
00:16:05.260But, hey, it's not like the economy is affected or children are affected at all.
00:16:11.320Well, the California Teachers Association, the second largest school district, is continuing their negotiations on when they can come back to school.
00:21:01.600They are intentionally crushing the middle class, crushing the entrepreneur and trying to get them to, A, break their spirit and, B, get on to the government dole.
00:21:15.860Which leads me to a story in the New York Times on the boredom economy.
00:22:30.180All right, then these days, probably the piece of technology that that you use.
00:22:40.000I'm sorry, that's the last commercial I need to tell you about my Patriot supply slowly, but surely things are beginning to come back to normal here in Texas.
00:22:48.280No matter what side of the aisle you're judging things from, the truth of the matter is that our area was not prepared for this kind of disaster.
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00:23:53.440John Kerry has come out on Friday and said that the record cold temperatures we're seeing global warming.
00:24:08.660I don't know how that works, but the guy who flies on private jets and has a mega yacht and several mansions, but he's different than all of us.
00:24:39.440We only have nine years to fix it, and that's why it needs to be a cram down.
00:24:43.880Now, some would say that, no, no, I don't think I'm going to buy that.
00:24:51.800Some would say, no, I don't think the cold weather is because of global climate change, because Texas has had this kind of cold weather before.
00:25:41.560There may be an entirely new species of dog that is bright blue.
00:25:46.780But remember, America is the crap hole that is holding the rest of the world back.
00:25:53.300Joe Bastardi is with us, and he is the chief forecaster at Weather Bell and also the author of The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate War.
00:28:23.400Well, what happened was, you know, I have contacts and one of the contacts is Sean Hannity, who forwarded my book.
00:28:32.860And, you know, I was mailing Sean and everybody, Wayne Advance and Sean called Governor Cruz or Senator Cruz and Governor Abbott.
00:28:43.260And Friday night, I got a I got a call from Senator Cruz and we talked for about a half hour.
00:28:49.340And then we talked to talk with Governor Abbott and then the staffs of both staffs of Senator Cruz's staff Saturday morning to really try to get them ahead.
00:28:59.720But by that time, it was sort of too late as far as what the state could do.
00:29:06.020You needed a response starting four or five days away.
00:29:09.360I actually tweeted that, Glenn, that this year and this was the middle of it was on Wednesday.
00:29:14.700I tweeted that there should be a federal response the same way as preparation for a hurricane goes, a winter type response, getting that equipment in there, understanding that we were going to have the kind of freeze ups we were going to have.
00:29:30.180And, you know, Saturday morning, I was digging into the Texas newspapers and I realized that they really didn't get it.
00:29:36.660They were saying, oh, it's going to be cold, but we've had these kind of things before.
00:33:46.760I want to know what they know, not what I know.
00:33:48.840I can't increase what I know unless I hear from someone else.
00:33:52.040So what happens is they look at one thing and put all their eggs in one basket.
00:33:57.760When you have all these models, all these what we call analogs of the past, the physical drivers of the atmosphere at that time, you have to decide as a human being, as a forecaster, try to do a service for your client or whoever, how to weight them.
00:34:32.600It's no different than what we were taught on the wrestling mat, except we do it with the weather in my company, where it's just constant, constant looking at things.
00:34:41.220So anyway, Joe, I hope that doesn't sound too pop.
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00:36:26.360The Guardian has reported now that NHS figures, this is from Great Britain, released last week, show that in the five weeks since the third lockdown began,
00:36:44.580COVID-19 accounted for 65% of deaths of people with learning disabilities.
00:36:50.66065% of deaths, learning disabilities from COVID.
00:36:57.720Office for the National Statistics show that the rate for the general population was only 39%.
00:37:08.080Well, that was the question that the England's Care Quality Commission looked into, and they found that nurses, doctors had put do not resuscitate orders on the charts.
00:37:29.960So if you had a learning disability, you didn't get resuscitated.
00:37:38.320That may be part of the problem when doctors or nurses are putting that on your files.
00:37:45.980This is phenomenal to me, if true, if true.
00:37:54.300It's again, people who think they know better.
00:37:58.700They think they know who's worthy, who's not.
00:39:15.420Not to mention, of course, when wealthy people purchase things early in their cycle or when they're expensive, they wind up paying for other people to use them later on.
00:41:37.580All you have to do is pay for shipping.
00:41:39.620And once you pay for shipping, they'll ship the bag to you for free.
00:41:42.600They, I just asked them how people who have put this on the dog food for a couple of months, maybe three months, how many of them cancel afterwards?
00:41:54.800And he's like, when the dog dies, I mean, it does make a difference and you will see it.
00:43:30.780We talk to his attorney in 60 seconds.
00:43:33.840So if you live anywhere within a day's drive of where I live, you've probably been living like you were in a Siberian gulag in the past week.
00:45:59.460For the first day or two, he was in the cell with Coates.
00:46:02.120So, I can imagine there's a wide range of guys in there.
00:46:07.560And was he in solitary confinement for a while?
00:46:11.920Well, I don't know if I'd quite call it that.
00:46:14.520I mean, what was going on is that he wasn't allowed to have any visitors, so he couldn't see his wife.
00:46:17.920He was only let out for 40 minutes a day.
00:46:20.980And he wasn't allowed to have any, you know, normal social interaction with anybody except, of course, his cellmate.
00:46:25.400The reason for that is, of course, the 14-day COVID, you know, isolation restriction that they have prisoners coming in.
00:46:33.740So, that's not, like, normally in the prison you are able to receive some visitors and you have some time out in a common area with some other prisoners.
00:46:41.620He's not getting that because of the COVID restrictions, not because of any other reason.
00:46:46.380So, I mean, solitary confinement probably isn't quite the word, but it's certainly taxing.
00:46:50.560Don't we get those 40 minutes out and not be able to have any visitors?
00:47:00.120So, his church is probably one of the few that not only believe they should all meet together at the same time on a morning,
00:47:10.820but are going to do it even when the government says not to because, you know, they, first of all, I mean, they don't believe in the science behind it.
00:47:19.560They don't think it's a justified violation of their rights because they don't think there's scientific evidence to back it up.
00:47:25.240But, you know, it's also a violation of their religious beliefs, right?
00:47:28.820Because they follow Scripture and Scripture says we are all to meet and meet in person, not over Zoom,
00:47:34.780so that we can, you know, pray together, sing together, do baptism together, have the Lord's Supper together, et cetera, et cetera.
00:47:40.180So, his church meets at its full, normal capacity, and he's the head pastor.
00:47:44.500He presides over that service most Sundays.
00:47:47.240So, because he was at that capacity and not at 15%, which is what it's supposed to be here in Alberta,
00:47:53.480he did that for several months, and eventually he was arrested and released on a Sunday after a service.
00:48:02.320Given an undertaking by the police, he refused to sign that undertaking.
00:59:39.680I mean, only in the most extreme circumstances for the shortest term possible is it even part of people.
00:59:44.180And if you're opening the liquor stores and the, you know, marijuana stores and you're telling the churches, you don't have a leg to stand on.
01:00:03.040You know, and our Bill of Rights has been a joke for at least a couple of decades.
01:00:08.160And I do think as, as time goes on, we will see a lot of these cases brought up during the pandemic that run through the courts and get overturned, that these policies were not okay to have in place.
01:00:20.020Of course, obviously at that point, the pandemic is likely over and it's no longer a consideration, but at least it may set a precedent for the future because these, these cases have to go through.
01:00:30.440You have to have an ability for churches to meet, even if it's dangerous.
01:00:35.480Like the, the fundamental part of, of this society when it comes to faith is the government is out of your way when it, when you, I mean, you can do all sorts of things.
01:00:47.660Think of the cases that have gone through.
01:11:58.320And critical race theory teaches that the only way to solve racism is to punish racism with reverse racism.
01:12:06.860So, I guess you're admitting that you're becoming the oppressor.
01:12:15.360You have corporations that are working with this.
01:12:18.660And let me give you an extreme example.
01:12:21.080The religious minorities that are being detained in Chinese concentration camps are allegedly being violently gang raped.
01:12:32.440One woman who has escaped has said that the policewoman told her that she had been assigned to investigate reports of rapes and torture taking place at the facility and how the mail guards would brag about how they were raped and tortured.
01:12:51.480The first encounter with new detainees was approximately 100 men and women who were chained and shackled at their hands and feet.
01:13:02.180And she said she witnessed horrible tragedies.
01:15:30.720Did you read over the weekend that IBM is getting rid of their medical computer system?
01:15:39.320Remember I told you years ago that IBM was working on a computer system in New York that was taking all of the facts and putting it in to a computer system where it would be like, you know, Big Blue, the chess playing game.
01:16:00.040That it was trying to use AI and machine learning to do diagnostics.
01:16:06.140And it was starting to get really, really good.
01:18:51.660We've got about five minutes here of spring, and then it's going to go into a flaming hot desert.
01:18:56.200And it might freeze, you know, in a week or so.
01:19:00.960But then it'll be just blazing fires of hell.
01:19:04.720So whether it's blizzarding or boiling hot,
01:19:08.560Rectech smart grill technology allows me to control the whole cooking process remotely.
01:19:13.180I don't have to stand outside in the cold or the heat.
01:19:16.180I can do it from an app on my phone or device.
01:19:19.060It's so smart that if the weather changes while cooking, it'll adjust to that and continue providing even more heating for the perfect food every single time.
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01:32:13.280They just hired her to say, this is what it means, and you can find this now on my website.
01:32:23.580And so, a bunch of Coca-Cola employees went out and did that, and they were like, ah, this is horrifying.
01:32:29.380But Coca-Cola wants you to know, they did not make that, quote, the focus of the course.
01:32:40.680Like, for example, if you were to bring in Richard Spencer, a guy who's identified essentially as the intellectual head of the alt-right Nazi party.
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01:40:37.020They found a shocking percentage of Americans are in favor of the dissolution of the United States of America.
01:40:44.860According to a new survey, nearly a third of Americans want to break it up and create smaller like-minded countries.
01:40:53.080Some people say the divisions within our country have grown so deep that we would be better off dividing into more like-minded regions that would govern themselves separately.
01:41:03.840Do you support or oppose the idea of dividing the United States into more than one nation?
01:51:05.860I think we also need some sort of a lawyer action group that can give people advice or represent people.
01:51:17.320I mean, I can't believe that if you object to a you have to be less white.
01:51:24.420I can't believe that you're going to lose in a court of law.
01:51:28.760Well, it's funny because I don't know if you've been following the story of Jody Shaw,
01:51:32.860who was a whistleblower at Smith College, but she just resigned over like last week
01:51:38.220in reference to the same type of thing happening at Smith College.
01:51:41.660And she filed complaints with their HR offices.
01:51:44.700And what she was told was civil rights laws aren't written to protect people who look like you.
01:51:52.120Wow. I'd love to see that tested in court because if that's true, we're done as a nation.
01:52:01.080Yeah. You mentioned that that people that who the person who reached out to you was not white with the Coca-Cola thing.
01:52:07.640I think it's fascinating. And that like how important in the turnaround of this nonsense is it for people who are not white to step up and say this is wrong?
01:52:18.920Because that's got to be a crucial part of the momentum to turn this around.
01:52:22.620It's all white people talking about. Right. Exactly. Martin Luther King had a lot of white pastors and yeah, a lot of people.
01:52:29.780Yeah. Yeah. I think it's critical to the operation because how this is usually framed is that the reason the white people speak up is that they're scared or they're fragile or any of these things.
01:52:39.660And that's simply not the case. So I think that everyone who is this should not be a black or white or brown issue.
01:52:45.940This shouldn't even be a Democrat versus Republican issue, quite frankly. If you are opposed to racism, you should be opposed to things like this.
01:52:53.620And I have to tell you, some of the feedback I've received from black people has been, well, Carlin, we were told to be less black in the workplace for years.
01:53:01.000And that's very valid. But that's also wrong and racist. That shouldn't be happening either.
01:53:06.180And if you're against that type of racism, then you should be against this as well.
01:53:09.960So tell me the problem with critical race theory to me and this anti-racist thing is its objective is to employ reverse racism.
01:53:22.620The only way to cure it is to punish those of another race and to have this reverse racism, which is an incredible goal to have.
01:53:37.300So they admit that that's what they're trying to do. Correct or not correct?
01:53:42.360Yeah, that's that's exactly correct. Yeah. The goal of critical race theory is that racism exists everywhere.
01:53:48.880And it says that white people put these systems in place in order to maintain power.
01:53:53.080And the only way to get rid of racism is to, you know, bring bring the white people down a level, essentially.
01:53:58.740So how do you argue with somebody who says, well, how can you disagree that white people wrote the rules and this country was founded by a bunch of white people?
01:54:08.940Well, I would say, yeah, it was founded by a bunch of white people.
01:54:12.820But this country has been all about progress and creating a more perfect union.
01:54:17.040I mean, the founders of this country were not perfect men, but they were good men and they were trying to do the right thing.
01:54:22.240And even when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, it was very obvious that he was uncomfortable with slavery and was trying to build mechanisms in to get slavery, you know, to be outlawed in the future.
01:54:34.240And so I think that, you know, we are not a perfect country, but we get better and better and better all the time.
01:54:39.380And these policies are simply regressing us back to a place that is that was even before the civil rights movement in this country.
01:54:46.880It makes absolutely no sense. And I just don't think the people continuing them have thought about what the end goal is.
01:54:54.560They don't they don't take into consideration that when Robin DiAngelo says all white people are racist, well, guess what?
01:55:00.160She means you, too. And she means the CEOs of all these companies.
01:55:03.240And if the goal is to destroy white privilege, well, that means all of your institutions are going to get tear down, torn down in the process.
01:55:10.900And so what does that really leave us with? I don't think that leaves us much to build on.
01:55:15.740There are very real and valid questions about race in this country, but this is not the way to fix it.
01:55:22.000I can't believe you ever that you were ever thinking that you were, you know, liberal or progressive.
01:55:31.520I can't believe it. To hear you quote Thomas Jefferson and our founders.
01:55:35.480I'm just so happy and and proud to be your friend. Proud to be your friend.
01:55:40.560Oh, well, thank you, Glenn. And I have to tell you, it's been a little over a year since I went to that Trump rally.
01:55:45.960I do. I do consider myself a liberal, but I think that I consider myself a liberal in the way that, you know, I'm a thinker.
01:55:52.800I like. Yeah. Classical liberal. I'm a classic liberal.
01:55:56.100I refuse to modify it with that term, though, because I think that the word liberal gets a bad rap and and I want to take it back.
01:57:20.900We were just talking to Carlin Borisenko about this training that companies are doing now to be anti-racist.
01:57:28.640That is so racist in and of itself and how important it is for African-Americans or Hispanics to stand up and go, this is not the world I want.
01:57:39.440And, you know, and it's going to be hard because people have been told be less black at work.
01:58:04.780Eminem should also be told to wear a suit at his bank if that's where he's working.
01:58:08.860If you're walking down the street and you have a bunch of people all tatted up and they look like thugs, like Eminem, and they're all white, and you cross the street as they're coming for you, you're not racist.
01:58:25.880You're probably just, you know, stereotyping.
01:58:31.600And the same could be said, if you do cross the street and you, because you see a bunch of black men that are wearing suits or all dressed nicely or whatever, you are a racist if you cross the street.
01:58:44.300If you're crossing the street because of a bunch of African-American bankers walking your way, then yes, you're probably a racist.
01:58:49.340And it's the same, I mean, I had that guy on, that white guy from Canada, the rapper, what was his name?
01:59:24.240If he was another color, I couldn't say that to him.
01:59:27.760And the same people who will tell you, like, that's what white people do.
01:59:31.280They cross the street when black people come nearby are the same people like AOC who will say they thought the Capitol Police were there to hurt them when they showed up to rescue them in the middle of the January 6th thing.
01:59:45.460Like we, you know, it's, you know, it is the old school definition of racism to say if a bunch of black guys who are bankers in suits walking towards you, if you cross the street, you're racist.